Sample Sentences forJamestown (editor-reviewed)
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Jamestown was named for King James of England.Jamestown = first English US colony
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The proof of their belief's value to them may be taken from the opposite character of the first Jamestown settlement, farther south, in Virginia. (source)Jamestown = site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607
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It was the second English colony, after the one set up in Jamestown in 1607—not too far from where we are now, actually! (source)
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... the whole family, returned to the coast from which the first Sutpen had come (when the ship from the Old Bailey reached Jamestown probably)... (source)
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From the shimmering swirl of waters where many, many thoughts ago the slave-ship first saw the square tower of Jamestown, have flowed down to our day three streams of thinking: (source)
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On September 13, he was rolling down an empty ribbon of blacktop outside Jamestown, North Dakota, leading his harvest crew home to Carthage after wrapping up the four-month cutting season in Montana, when the VHP barked to life.† (source)
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Near a bucolic estate called Lockett's Farm, the Jamestown Road crosses over Big Sayler's Creek and Little Sayler's Creek at a place called Double Bridges.† (source)
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In the same two-year period, fifteen hundred miles away, near Buffalo, New York, another man — a kind of Boss Man clone — worked the distressed downtown streets of Jamestown.† (source)
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"You bet," Clancy said, and talked for the next hour and a half about how the Pilgrims interacted with the native tribes, about Jamestown, about all the things my mother used to teach at her high school. (source)Jamestown = site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607
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Shakespeare died in 1616; the Pilgrims landed four years later; Jamestown was founded in 1607.† (source)
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/Plymouth Rock/ at the North and /Jamestown/ at the South are examples of their poverty of fancy; they filled the narrow tract along the coast with new /Bostons/, /Cambridges/, /Bristols/ and /Londons/, and often used the adjective as a prefix.† (source)
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